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Andrew Belle - Many lives

I’m just getting over this
My fingers are arguing over which
One of them gets to climb down your wrist
Introduce themselves to yours first
I try to make sense of this
Cause my lips are starting to make a list
Of all of the things that they seem to have missed
Before the day that they met yours

Oh but, how many lives have we
How many lives have we
How many lives have we led

You’re just getting over him
Your eyes are shining
But oh so dim
I heard he tore you apart limb from limb
You promise it wasn’t the worst

And I hope there’s enough for you
Cause my love is bleeding and slightly bruised
You be the page and then I’ll be the glue
Come here, I’ll show you it hurts

Forget all the times that you sat felt sorry for yourself
Cause that’s done
I hope that you’re falling for me and not just for my wealth
Cause there’s none
My heart’s speeding up so I think that we should take it slow
Oh no, I
Think we should try to see just how far this thing can go
Oh, oh

I’m just getting over her
It’s funny cause I thought I was so sure
You be the patient and I’ll be the cure
Ain’t that just the way that it goes

Oh but, how many lives have we
How many lives have we
How many lives have we led

January152015

January092015

Don't wake me up, I'm winning wars inside my head
And maybe I'm weak but not beneath the covers of this bed
Asleep, I'm undefeated in this world of mine
So let me stay inside this dream and keep me from the light

I've built this place behind my eyes you'll never see
And you can move my body but please keep my mind asleep
Beyond the galaxies where there's no space or time
I will transform, I am reborn to rule over the skies

I, I feel it in my bones
Escape, the world I know
It's all in my control
I, I just wanna stay this way
Blood pumping in my veins
I feel it, I feel it

Behind the darkness there's a sea of neon light
And maybe you think I'm sinking, but you just can't get inside
Don't try to save me when my mind is finally free
Cause I'd rather run my own world than face your reality

It's not enough for me to paint with black and white
Inside my head there are shades of red unknown to waking life
You think you've traveled far? You've never seen the stars
Cause the only the way is if I say you can follow me that far

I, I feel it in my bones
Escape, the world I know
It's all in my control
I, I just wanna stay this way
Blood pumping in my veins
I feel it, I feel it

January062015

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Waltz Around Saturn with this video showing highlights from Cassini's
exploration of the giant planet, its magnificent rings, and fascinating
family of moons.
(WARNING: this video may not be suitable for people with photosensitive epilepsy)

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Non-Platonic Relationships

David Policar

A friend of mine and I were talking about platonic vs. non-platonic
relationships, and I got to thinking about a "Platonic relationships" as
the ideal relationship of which any actual relationship is just a
shadow on the cave wall... which got me wondering about "non-Platonic
relationships" like the following:

A Socratic relationship, in which you ask a lot of really difficult
questions of the other person until they get annoyed and want to poison
you. (I have a lot of those.)

A Hegelian relationship, in which the two parties
disagree about everything but eventually achieve a synthesis. (Come to
think of it, I have a lot of those, too.)

An Aristotalean relationship, characterized by an extreme interest in what category of relationship this is.

A Cartesian relationship, characterized by doubts about whether there's really a relationship going on.
A more extreme version of this is the Berkeleyan relationship,
characterized by an adamant insistence that there is no relationship
going on at all. Both of these can in time evolve into a Wittgensteinian
relationship, in which the participants acknowledge that whether
there's a "real relationship" is an ill-defined question that depends
more on the structure of their language than on the reality of the
relationship.

An Aquinian relationship, that acknowledges that an
exploration of the nature of the relationship is likely to strengthen
rather than weaken it.

A Kantian relationship, in which you can morally do anything that it's OK for everyone else in the relationship to do.

A Rousseaian relationship, characterized by the natural behavior of man in the wild, away from civilization.

A Nietzchian relationship, where both parties focus primarily on the will to power.

A Randian relationship, in which both parties act exclusively in their own self-interest.

Some additional entries suggested by Frank Krausz:

A Heraclitean relationship, which you may as well not categorize
since it's not only different from all other relationships, it isn't the
same from one moment to the next. (You might think you've been in one
just like that, but you're wrong.)

A Stoic relationship, which is also unique, but anyway it's no better nor worse than any other.

An Epicurean relationship, which theoretically isn't very different from a Stoic one, but sounds like a lot more fun.

A Humean relationship, in which what you see is what you get.

A Hillelistic relationship, which is platonic (in the
vulgar sense) because nobody will do anything to anybody that they don't
want done back to themselves.

A Christian relationship, which soon degenerates into a
platonic relationship because both parties are doing what they do want
done back to themselves, instead of what the other party wants done to
them.

A Marxist relationship, where each party gives
according to -- I'll stop right there, it's too obvious. Clearly *that*
one is doesn't become platonic. Let's hear it for Materialism.